Le vite de dodici Cesari di Gaio Suetonio Tranquillo / tradotte in lingua toscana per m. Paolo del Rosso cittadino fiorentino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122.

Contributor:

Del Rosso, Paolo, -1569.

Blado, Antonio, 1490-1567, printer.

Priscianese, Francesco, active 1540-1547, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De vita Caesarum. Italian

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Emperors--Rome--Biography.

Emperors.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Randolph Greenfield, 1892-1951 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered leaves, 262 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves ; 15 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Vite de dodici Cesari di Gaio Svetonio Tranqvillo

Fingerprint:

diii daa- o-i, matr (3) 1544 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Roma : Per Antonio Blado, Asulano, ad instanza, & à spese di m. Francesco Priscianese fiorentino, nel MDXLIIII [1544]

Notes:

Printer from colophon: Stampato in Roma : Per Antonio Blado Asulano, ad instanza, et a spese di m. Francesco Priscianese fiorentino, MDXLIIII.

Woodcuts: title vignette; initials.

Leaves printed on both sides.

Woodcut vignette on title page depicts reverse of a Roman coin with legend: Concordia Aug[usta] S[enatus] C[onsulto]

Signatures: 2a⁴ A-2K⁸ (leaves 2K7-2K8 blank)

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy wanting leaves A1 and leaves 2K7-2K8 (presumably blank)

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate: R.G. Adams.

Culture Class Collection copy has various illegible ms. signatures on title page, with partially legible one reading: G. Rain[...]

Cited in:

EDIT 16 CNCE 24549

Gamba, B. Testi di lingua, 1667

Schweiger, F. Classischen bibliograhie, II, p. 985

Bernoni, D. Torresani, Blado e Ragazzoni, p. 349, no. 73

OCLC:

70787577